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Female Blogger Threatened With Defamation Suit For Writing About TSA 'Rape'
After a particularly aggressive patdown in March that might be better described as a feel-up, advice blogger Amy Alkon graphically described how she sobbed loudly while a TSA agent put her hands “into” her — four times. She screamed “You raped me” after the LAX patdown and took the agent’s name with plans to file charges of sexual assault. Those plans fell through after consulting an attorney, but she did blog about it and included the agent’s name, thereby inflicting her own assault — on the… (www.forbes.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Another security technique that needs to be shelved....
Anyone who has passed through airport "security" has witnessed the behavior described by Alkon. She needs to proceed with her campaign against this over-zealous TSA thug. The battle cry should be THE TRAVELERS ARE COMING, THE TRAVELERS ARE COMING, AND WE AREN'T GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE.
We the citizens need to push our representatives at a state level to make the activities of the TSA Felonies -- if this were anyone else they would find themselves in prison
These people always manage to top the last fiasco with an even more extreme example. I hope Amy wins and the TSA ends up being directed to look at more appropriate screening methods as part of the settlement.
One more reason not to fly through the good'ol US of A on my way to HK or Japan or Manila!
This is dumb on many levels.
The TSA procedures are silly. More about "feeling safe" than actual safety.
"Rape"? Get out of here. Four times? I can see why the TSA is pissed. That's a serious word to be thrown around.
Then there's Forbes. Really? This is what is going on at Forbes these days? Blogs posing as journalism?
The TSA procedures are silly. More about "feeling safe" than actual safety.
"Rape"? Get out of here. Four times? I can see why the TSA is pissed. That's a serious word to be thrown around.
Then there's Forbes. Really? This is what is going on at Forbes these days? Blogs posing as journalism?
Unfortunately, the TSA will probably promote her.